Isaiah 34:1-17 NCV

[1] All you nations, come near and listen. Pay attention, you peoples! The earth and all the people in it should listen, the world and everything in it. [2] The LORD is angry with all the nations; he is angry with their armies. He will destroy them and kill them all. [3] Their bodies will be thrown outside. The stink will rise from the bodies, and the blood will flow down the mountains. [4] The sun, moon, and stars will dissolve, and the sky will be rolled up like a scroll. The stars will fall like dead leaves from a vine or dried-up figs from a fig tree. [5] The LORD's sword in the sky is covered with blood. It will cut through Edom and destroy those people as an offering to the LORD. [6] The LORD's sword will be covered with blood; it will be covered with fat, with the blood from lambs and goats, with the fat from the kidneys of sheep. This is because the LORD decided there will be a sacrifice in Bozrah and much killing in Edom. [7] The oxen will be killed, and the cattle and the strong bulls. The land will be filled with their blood, and the dirt will be covered with their fat. [8] The LORD has chosen a time for punishment. He has chosen a year when people must pay for the wrongs they did to Jerusalem. [9] Edom's rivers will be like hot tar. Its dirt will be like burning sulfur. Its land will be like burning tar. [10] The fires will burn night and day; the smoke will rise from Edom forever. Year after year that land will be empty; no one will ever travel through that land again. [11] Birds and small animals will own that land, and owls and ravens will live there. God will make it an empty wasteland; it will have nothing left in it. [12] The important people will have no one left to rule them; the leaders will all be gone. [13] Thorns will take over the strong towers, and wild bushes will grow in the walled cities. It will be a home for wild dogs and a place for owls to live. [14] Desert animals will live with the hyenas, and wild goats will call to their friends. Night animals will live there and find a place of rest. [15] Owls will nest there and lay eggs. When they hatch open, the owls will gather their young under their wings. Hawks will gather with their own kind. [16] Look at the LORD's scroll and read what is written there: None of these will be missing; none will be without its mate. God has given the command, so his Spirit will gather them together. [17] God has divided the land among them, and he has given them each their portion. So they will own that land forever and will live there year after year.